Claim · #6492517
Epeolus spp. · parasitism · Colletes spp.
parasitism · effect: harmful
parasiteOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Epeolus on Colletes, Triepeolus mostly on Eucerini”
- Authors
- Michener C.D.
- Year
- 2007
- Publication
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Page
- 35
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Epeolus is a well-documented cleptoparasite of Colletes; the source quote directly supports the subject-object parasitism direction.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Epeolus (Apidae: Nomadinae) is a well-documented cleptoparasite of Colletes (Colletidae); host specificity is taxonomically established and the source quote directly supports the structured fields.”
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